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UNITED STATES,

PATENT OFFICE;

JOHN W. KOI-ILHEPP, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO SWIF'I` ANDCOMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

HOG-SCRAPING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 685,283, dated October29,1901. Application led I une 4, 1897. Serial No. 639,418, (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN W. KOHLHEPP, a citizen ofthe United States,residing in Ohicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Hog-Scraping Machines,of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to hog-scraping machines, and particularly tomachines of that class in which the hog is secured by a suit.- able hookto a moving carrier and is by it drawn through the scraping-machine andafterward automatically disengaged from the carrier and deposited atsome convenient point. Carriers heretofore used for this purpose haveusually been endless belts connected by suitable cross-bars, thecross-bars serving to receive the hooks by which the hogs are attachedthereto.

Specifically stated, my invention resides in improved and simplifiedmechanism for automatically releasing the hooks from the crossbars overwhich they are hooked, thereby permittin g the hog, with the hookattached, to escape from the carrier.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side View of parts of thehog-scraping machine, part of the wall of the scraping-cylinder beingbroken away. Fig. 2 is a vertical section through the carrier, showingthe releasing device. Fig. 3 is a front view of the parts shown in Fig-2. Fig. 4 is a cross-section on line 4 4 of Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawings, 5 indicates a scraping-cylinder, which in theform herein shown is in two sections, one of said sections beingarranged to be moved away from the other to permit of access to theinterior thereof when desired, a hand-Wheel 6, operating through rods 78 9, being provided for separating the sections of said cylinder.

10 indicates one of the scraper-arms.

11 indicates the endless belts which carry cross-bars 12, to which thehog-hooks are attached. As shown in Figs. 1 and 3, there are guides 1314 to direct the course of the belts, the guides 14 being arranged atopposite sides of the'cylinder 5, so that the carrier may move centrallythrough said cylinder. As shown in Fig. 1, the lower portion of thecarrier extends substantially horizontally, and

in practice the'hog is hooked to the carrier near the lower portionthereof and is then carried up through the cylinder 5 and thence passesdownward to a detlectingplate 15, as shown in Fig. 1.

The apparatus above described is that commonly used heretofore, andI'have not described it more fully because itdoes not constitute a partof my present invention, and I wish it to be distinctly understood thatI do not restrict myself to the details of the construction illustrated.

1G indicates a stationary releasing-plate which is arranged at the sideof the carrier opposite that at which the hook is attached and extendsdownward at an angle to the path of movement of the carrier, as shown inFigs. 1 and 2, and is in position to intercept the hog-hook at theproper point to release it from the cross-bar to which it is attached.In Fig. 2 one of the hog-hooks 17 is shown approaching the plate 16. Asshown in Fig. 2, the hook 17 is provided with a lug 1S, projecting inposition to engage the plate 16 as the hook moves downward. The loweredge of the plate 16 terminates at such a point that as the cross-bars12 move downward they will pass in close proximity thereto, consequentlycausing-the hooks to be raised and thrown off such cross-bars as thecarrier continues its downward movement. The releasing-plate 16 is alsoplaced at such a height above the-detlecting-platel that the hog will bereceived upon said plate 15 as it is discharged from the carrier. Aplate 19 extends across the frame of the machine immediately below andin juxtaposition to the plate 16, serving to reinforce such plate andinsure the release of the hook. l

While I have described my improvement as applied to hog-Scrapers, I wishit to be understood that it may also be used for analogous purposes.

That which I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by LettersPatent, is-e 1. In a hog-scraper, theY combination with a carrier, of ahook for attaching the hog to said carrier, and a stationaryreleasing-plate inclined downwardly toward said carrier and having itsinner portion extending across the path of descent of said hook, fromthe side IOO 1o extending across the path of descent of said hook and areinforcing-plate arranged inline, diately below and in juxtaposition tosaid stationary releasing-plate, whereby as the hook progresses with thecarrier it will be disengaged therefrom bysaid releasing-plate, I 5

sbstantially as described.

JOHN W. KOHLHEPP. \Vitnesses:

JOHN L. JACKSON, ALBERT II. ADAMS.

